Removable component for a consumable with identifying graphic

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8967489-B2
Application number	US-201414153176-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2014
Priority date	Sep 27, 2010
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A removable component for dispensing a physical resource from a dispensing system may include a body defining a reservoir in which a physical resource may be stored, a graphic provided on the removable component having information, and a composite structure formed by the patterned graphic, the body, and the reservoir.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A removable component for dispensing a physical resource from a dispensing system, the removable component comprising:
a body defining a reservoir in which a physical resource may be stored;
a graphic provided on the removable component; and
a composite structure formed by the graphic, body, and reservoir and having first and second optically encoded patterns at first and second depths, respectively, in the composite structure, with the second depth bein…

Assignees

• Whirlpool Co

Inventors

• Dunsbergen Kirk M
• Ghosh Kaustav
• Pinkowski Robert J

Classifications

• A47L2401/023

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• D06F39/02 Primary

  Textiles & Paper · mapped topic

• A47L2401/026

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A47L2501/30

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A47L15/0055

  Human Necessities · mapped topic